Western Railroad Discussion > UP's Business Train in Ramona, KS Yesterday...

Made a trip north to Kansas yesterday with fellow TO member SCKP187 to chase the UP business train. We met santafe199 at Herington & the chase began. We shot at several different locations & met with PRose later in the day at McPherson. We ended the day in Salina, KS to visit with Bob & Lance; stopped by Cozy INN for a bag of burgers & headed back to Tulsa. The weather was perfect which made for a great day. It was good seeing Lance(santafe199) & Bob(PRose). Here are a few photos I took.
Photos taken April 22, 2014.


Photo 1: Winter wheat field & UP 8822 between Herington & Ramona KS.
Photos 2 & 3. UP 8822 departing Ramona KS after a brief stop.

Thanks for looking.
Ronda Thomas



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/23/14 14:58 by oklachaser.

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Nice! Love the shot over the young Kansas wheat field. Just a few minutes earlier I had skated around the other side of Ramona and saw the train slowing downfrom the south side, but I decided to try and catch it down at Durham (which I did). I'm sifting through the IDs & locations for about 150 images from yesterday, but I should have something to post in a few hours...

Good seeing you honorary Kansas Gangsters again, as well!
Lance

Very nice pics. I need to make an effort to get out.

Looks like CTC is finally getting ready to be finished up from Whiteside into Herington! It's about dang time...thanks for the photos.

Could someone explain the roof configuration of the first car?

scott122 Wrote:
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> Could someone explain the roof configuration of
> the first car?

It's radiators for the newest, and ugliest power car.
Steve

Great shots, Birdy!! Nice wide open views.

Bob
PRose

Ugg-ly! You'd think they could come up with a better design. Thanks for the answer.

The "Hammerhead" power car is UPP #2066. I like to think with a little more effort, it could have been made to look like a dome car.

http://www.up.com/cs/groups/public/documents/up_pdf_nativedocs/pdf_power_cars_historical.pdf

davew833 Wrote:
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> The "Hammerhead" power car is UPP #2066. I like to
> think with a little more effort, it could have
> been made to look like a dome car.
>
> http://www.up.com/cs/groups/public/documents/up_pd
> f_nativedocs/pdf_power_cars_historical.pdf

Long story not to be told here.
Steve